Scheduled Cruises in 2001

Summary of a recent cruise on margins research (UK.011)

Location :   NW Indian Ocean

Research ship and cruise identifier :   RRS Charles Darwin 134B

Sailed :   10 October 2001 from: Mahe, Seychelles

Docked :   17 October 2001 in: Mahe, Seychelles

PI :   Professor Bob Whitmarsh

Laboratory :   Southampton Oceanography Centre, UK

Other investigators :   Jenny Collier

E-mail :   rbw@soc.soton.ac.uk

Scientific objectives :   The cruise was arranged at very short notice to conduct a 7-day EM-12 swath bathymetry and magnetometer survey of the northern margin of the Seychelles Plateau. These data will provide essential background information for planning a major seismic experiment to investigate the deep structure of this margin in early 2003.